Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:25:32 +0200 From: Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libXO-ification - Why - and is it a symptom of deeper issues? Message-ID: <61FE0B8E-37C3-4654-90BC-7A4F2EB3FFDB@rdsor.ro> In-Reply-To: <29711.1447778554@chaos> References: <0650CA79-5711-44BF-AC3F-0C5C5B6E5BD9@rdsor.ro> <564AED8B.4080809@freebsd.org> <AAB7C093-5065-4102-80B2-FB10A3D441D8@rdsor.ro> <29711.1447778554@chaos>
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It=E2=80=99s not about the fronted. That would have to be replaced most = likely=20 The most useful part IMO is the permission engine itself, and maybe some=20= other parts too but without insight into implementation I am not able to=20= judge that. =20 You could IPC key value-data into the security engine describing = arbitrary commands, , have the request validated, user right checked, then passed to a = command execution=20 system (and I use the command term very loosely, I do not refers to a utility) =20 > On 17 Nov 2015, at 18:42, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote: >=20 > Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> wrote: >> Juniper can further help FreeBSD by donating the code of their >> system management daemon and their fine granularity permissions >=20 > At the cost of i18n etc? > The Junos UI is totally data driven, syntax is verified term by term > (since depending on your permissions some terms simply do not exist = for > you). Such a model cannot be successfully translated to other > languages where the order of verbs and nouns differ for example. >=20 > Everything I've read on the topic suggests that messages must be > translated on at least phrase if not sentence granularity for = reasonable > results, and that just doesn't fit our UI. > Thus enhancement requests for i18n are politely rejected. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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